Ves called up the design of the Blood Knight Project and studied it carefully.
Unlike all of his other serious works up to this date, the Blood Knight Project almost looked unrecognizable at first.
The reason why the Blood Knight Project looked so out of place was because its entire ch fra consisted of organic components!
The latest iteration of the Blood Knight Project consisted of a second-class spaceborn hybrid bioch.
Although Ves ideally wanted to design a quasi-first-class bioch so that it could match the latest standards of the main fleet of the Larkinson Clan, he did not want to bite more than he could chew.
This was his first true bioch design project. Compared to designing a conventional ch, Ves had to overco brand-new difficulties and complications for the first ti.
The bioch design-related skills that he acquired from the System could only support him up to this point. He lacked way too much experience to exploit these ager skills any further.
What was worse was that Ves couldn't apply much of the proficiencies related to conventional ch design to this troubleso project.
While there were definitely a lot of parallels between conventional chs and organic chs, they also differed in so many different ways!
Designing a ch comprised of tal was like assembling a clockwork machine. Each component was discreet and could be slotted into place with relative ease.
Designing a bioch was like shaping a holistic organic life form. Every organic part was interconnected to other organic stuff. Removing an organic component was not simple at all because it supported countless other biological systems.
Just like how blindly adding a second heart to a random human body would lead to a cascade of health problems, Ves needed to make a host of adjustnts for each organic addition or removal to the Blood Knight Project!
Many lis, Ves even had the illusion thal he had beco a beast designer as opposed lo a ch designer!
The developnt of the Blood Knight Project had beco very uneven as a result. There were periods where he breezed through the design problems, but there were also tis where he got stuck on a single problem for days on end.
It didn't help that Ves beca preoccupied with many other matters In the last few weeks and months!
His incarnations were sowhat capable of picking up the slack, but he had mostly prioritized other ch design projects during this period.
The Blood Knight Project was too special to Ves. It deserved his full attention. Only then would he be able to complete a Carmine bioch that introduced a lot of new refinents to the Carmine System.
'This machine is a lot different from the ones I've designed before." He rubbed his hairless chin in thought. "Not even the Carmine chs commissioned by the Survivalists in a hurry can compare to the Blood Knight Project in terms of scope and integration."
The Carmine System implented in conventional chs had always seed awkward to Ves. As a fully biochanical system, it looked out of place inside the fra of a conventional ch.
Even the Bastion, which he considered his best Carmine ch to date, still possessed a fair amount of suboptimal solutions and unnecessary burdens due to the relatively crude addition of the very first Carmine System to exist.
This had been one of the contributing reasons why the Bastion failed to beco a masterwork ch.
The Blood Knight Project might possess a lot more flaws and inadequacies compared to his conventional chs, but one of its strongest advantages was the fact that its 'Carmine System' encompassed every single piece of organic tissue sustained by blood!
"In fact, the Carmine System doesn't really exist as a discreet system anymore. The ordinary cardiovascular system of the bioch essentially fulfills its purpose without doing anything special."
The original Carmine System was an attempt to introduce a blood circulatory system to a ch fra that did not have anything to do with blood in the first place!
Ves did not need to go through all of that effort this ti because a bioch already incorporated this to a much more extensive degree!
The real challenge to incorporating the essential elents of the Carmine System into a bioch was to make its blood safe for the human body.
This was not technically possible unless a ch pilot subjected himself to extre genetic modification and implantation.
The 'blood' utilized by a bioch was much denser and filled with all kinds of toxic substances that could quickly poison any human body from the inside!
In order lo safely rge (he cardiovascular system of the bioch and ch pilot, Ves had lo design a miration system in the cockpil.
This new addition was responsible for removing all of the toxic and dangerous elents in the enriched blood of the Blood Knight Project.
Only purified and diluted blood should be able to get into the body of the ch pilot.
Theoretically, everything should be safe. There was little reason to suspect that the filtered blood would pose a health risk to the ch pilot after undergoing a lot of processing.
Ves did not assu 11 was completely safe, though. He needed lo test this new technological implentation to make sure that he did not overlook a few variables.
In any case, as long as those asures worked, the outco should be quite considerable.
"The Carmine Systems integrated in conventional chs such as the Bastion and the Blood Star function more like add-ons rather than a core system of those machines. They only comprise up to 5 percent of the volu of rhe ch fra. While they are working as intended, 1 always feel that much of their potential remains untapped."
The story was different for his Blood Knight Project. The reach of the 'Biocarmine System' or whatever was so extensive that it was in direct contact with at least SO percent of the volu of the bioch fra!
The remaining 20 percent or so comprised of inaccessible organic tals that made up the bones and exterior plating.
Though Ves initially wanted to design the Blood Knight Project as an uncovered bioch, he did not have the confidence to make it sturdy enough by relying on a fleshy exterior.
This was why he went through the trouble of adding an exoskeleton made out of organic tals.
This increased the cost and growth of the Blood Knight Project by a considerable margin, but Ves wasn't too worried about the added expenses.
"It's not as if I'm putting this design on the market."
The Blood Knight Project primarily served as an experintal design for Ves. It might not see heavy use once he completed it, but its existence would definitely benefit him a lot as he got to test and discover many new Interactions related to the Carmine System!
The innovative new bioch design was not only important to Ves, but also the Survivalists!
Ves knew that Jovy and the chers stationed aboard the Spirit of Bentheim and the Bluejay Fleet always kept tabs on him. Their interest would always peak whenever he worked on anything related to the Carmine System.
Even though he didn't like it, Ves had made peace with all of this snooping. This was a necessary cost of doing business with the Red Association.
It was fine so long as he wasn't outright enemies with this powerful organization!
Besides, if Ves wanted to work on a project that was truly dangerous and taboo, he could always make Veronica work on it instead.
There was no way the chers succeeded in infiltrating the Throne of Light, the flagship of the Oblivion Empire!
The scrappy warship that served as the mobile stronghold of the Lady of the Night was under her permanent supervision!
Ves did not believe that a True God would be blind to any shenanigans that took place well inside the range of her own domain!
There was no need for Ves lo resort lo this asure tor lhe li being. The Blood Knighl Project contained plenty of innovations, bul none of them crossed any lines lhal the Carmine System hadn't already done.
"Now that I think about it, the Biocarmine System is not so much an evolution but a variation of the original Carmine System."
Ves believed that the Biocarmine System could produce enhanced results compared to the base version. He anticipated that it could produce a much deeper integration between the bioch and its bonded ch pilot. The resulting 'Deep Blood Pact' could produce a lot of potential benefits, such as doubling the increase in effective genetic aptitude!
If this was lhe case, then Carmine biochs should be the most effective platform for aspiring pilots with poor qualifications.
ch pilots with extrely low genetic aptitudes and norms who did not possess any aningful genetic aptitudes to begin with could effectively pilot a ch after bonding with a copy of the Blood Knight Project!
Even pilots with better qualifications could benefit from the Blood Knight Project as it took much less ti for them to receive a substantial boost in control. They did not have to pilot their new Carmine chs for several years in order to grow their Blood Pact to the desired strength.
Ves could already imagine it. ch pilots who had the fortune to beco potentates only to be devastated after learning their genetic aptitudes only reached lhe D-grade would experience a renaissance!
"I'm not sure how much their effective genetic aptitudes will increase when bonding with a Carmine bioch, but it is not outside of the realm of possibility to jump from D to C from the very start. Reaching B should also be possible as long as their Deep Blood Pact has ti to grow."
What about more? Was it possible for these marginal ch pilots who always earned lhe least amount of respect in the ch community lo attain a level of control over their machines that was equivalent to A-grade genetic aptitude?!
It sounded too good to be true!
Ves seriously doubted that it would be that simple, though. There had to be limits and complications that should cap or slow the relentless increase in effective genetic aptitude.
Even so, any boost was better than no boost. The initial results of the Carmine Trooper, Carmine Conscript and the Carmine Raider also proved that the base version of the Carmine System could produce at least one major jump in effective genetic aptitude!
The fact that it also worked in the upper grades was an important piece of information to Ves!
"If I can achieve all of that with a Carmine System that is hastily designed and grown, what about a proper Biocarmine System that is properly designed and made?"
The Blood Knight Project fascinated him more and more. It already held a lot of promise, but Ves wasn't entirely satisfied with its design and technological implentations.
As much as Ves had broken new ground by developing the Biocarmine System that could potentially form a Deep Blood Pact, it wasn't innovative enough to represent a generational advancent.
He still regarded it as a first generation product. The improvents all amounted to relatively minor and easy refinents as opposed to revolutionary additions.
Ves thought that it would take years for him to reach the point where he was ready to develop the second generation of Carmine Systems.
That had changed when he had incidentally discovered rhe greater potential of blood.
"Right now, the blood used to bind the ch and ch pilot together isn't all that special. What if I change that? What if I deliberately add extraordinary factors into the mix? Will that lead to a holistic strengthening of both sides? Will that strengthen or mutate the Blood Pact into an enhanced form? What if I Insert trace amounts of hyper materials instead?" The possibilities were endless! Ves truly felt that if he fleshed out this amazing idea in the Blood Knight Project, the improvents would beco so significant that it essentially represented a generational leap!
"Compared lo the first generation, lhe second generation will truly turn lhe Carmine System into a product of lhe Age of Dawn!"
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